| PlantID | 0098 |
| Botanical Name | Solanum surattense |
| Common Name | Kanteli |
| Classification | | Kingdom: | Plantae | | Subkingdom: | Tracheobionta | | Division: | Magnoliophyta | | Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Subclass: | Asteridae | | Order: | Solanales | | Family: | Solanaceae | | Genus: | Solanum | | Species: | surattense |
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| Part used | Whole plant, fruits, seeds, flowers, leaves, stem and root. |
| Medicinal Properties | Alterative, antiasthmatic, aperient, astringent, bitter, digestive, duretic, febrifuge, pungent, carminative, anodyne, antiemetic and expectorant.
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| Medicinal Use | Whole plant used in bronchitis, cough, constipation and in dropsy, decoction used in gonorrhoea and promotes conception. Fruits, flowers and stem: prescribed in vesicular and watery eruption, juice of the berries beneficial in sorethroat, fine powder mixed with honey cures children chronic cough. Leaves: juice with black pepper given in rheumatism. Root: useful in catarrhal affections, pain in the chest.
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| Chemistry | Beta-carotene, caffeic, chlorogenic, isochlorogenic, neochlorogenic acids, esculin, esculetin, scopoletin, cycloartanol, cholesterol, diosgenin.
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| Cultivation | NA |
| Regional Habitat | Common in waste places, road-sides and along railway lines throughout Rajasthan.
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| Description | A prickly, diffuse herb. Leaves: ovate or elliptic sinuate or subpinnatifid glabrescent, with many straight spines. Flowers: borne in few-flowered, lateral cymes. Corolla blue, lobes shallow. Fruits: globose, glabrous berries, whitish and green-blotched, yellow when ripe. Seeds: glabrous. Flowers and fruits from March-July.
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